/ About this event
🥂 An invite-only evening for the people who own a piece of the AI boom, and the people who allocate to it.
Silicon Valley's AI leaders are staying private longer than ever. For early employees, angels, and early investors, that means paper wealth that can sit locked up for years, while the real price discovery happens quietly in the pre-IPO market. For family offices and GPs, it means the most important AI value is being set before it ever reaches the public tape.
Liquidity today, legacy tomorrow. This room brings both sides together to understand where that value is really clearing, from the power grid all the way to the IPO.
The evening
6:00 PM: Doors open, cocktails
7:00 PM: Market briefing, "From Grid to IPO: Where AI Value Is Actually Clearing" (25 min + Q&A)
The pre-IPO tape. Where Silicon Valley unicorns are clearing today compared with their last round and 409A, and how tender offers, direct secondaries, and SPVs actually work. The AI stack, end to end. Energy and power, chips, data centers, foundation models. Which layers hold real pricing power, and why scarce inputs like grid access and inference compute are outrunning the headline boom. The public-market feedback loop. How rates, the IPO window, and public AI multiples flow back into private marks. The road to IPO. How late-stage companies are timing their listings in this cycle, and what it means for everyone on the cap table.
7:30 PM: Curated mixer. We'll make the right introductions.
Who's in the room (approval required, capped at 50)
Shareholders of leading pre-IPO AI companies, including early employees, angels, and early investors Family offices, LPs, and wealth advisors allocating across late-stage private and public markets GPs and fund managers at venture, growth, and crossover funds Founders and operators at late-stage AI, infrastructure, and robotics companies
Confirmed so far (28 approved): senior advisors from a roughly $235B multi-family office and a roughly $50B independent family office platform; a US technology private equity investor from a global financial group; private wealth advisors from a national wirehouse; and a private credit platform. Alongside them are more than a dozen family office principals, trustees and private investors from Los Angeles and beyond; a dedicated single-asset secondaries firm and a permanent-capital private equity firm; and GPs from AI-native seed, physical AI and robotics, deep-tech, growth-stage, and space and defense funds based in San Francisco, Houston, Montreal and Europe. AI founders building for regulated industries round out the room.
What this is: an educational, off-the-record evening to compare notes with peers who see different parts of the market. What this isn't: a pitch event. No decks, no solicitation, no transactions. Just market intelligence and the right room.
Attendance is curated. Please include your firm/company and role when requesting a spot. Approvals go out on a rolling basis. Chatham House Rule applies.
The +1 rule: This evening is built to stay balanced at roughly 1:1 GP to LP. GPs attending are asked to bring one LP or family office principal from their own network. LPs and family offices may attend solo, and are welcome to bring a GP they invest with. Both guests are curated — please register your +1 by name. Hosted by Singularity Effect Partners. www.singularityeffect.fund
This event is part of #LATechWeek, a week of events hosted by top founders, funds, and companies to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
